A Week of This by Nathan Whitlock A Novel in Seven Days

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Brilliant, darkly comic, and startlingly honest, this novel follow the lives of an extended family over one increasingly desperate week. Manda is a 38-year-old, tough, sarcastic woman who has yet to make peace with the town she was brought to as a teenager after her parents' messy divorce in this novel full of barbed dialogue and hilarious, deadpan descriptions of family dynamics.

Nathan Whitlock is the review editor of Quill & Quire magazine. His writing and reviews have appeared in Geist, The Globe and Mail, Maisonneuve, Saturday Night, Toro, and The Toronto Star. He lives in Toronto, Ontario